New Delhi: Minister of Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch has said that in March 2008 Ministry of Culture had released a corpus grant of Rs.2 crores for establishing the Bahadur Shah Zafar Chair in IGNOU.

In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha she said, the Board of Management of IGNOU had established the Bahadur Shah Zafar Chair in April 2008. Thereafter, it established the Chairs on General Shah Nawaz, INA and Shaheed Kartar Singh Sarabha in November, 2010.